--- title: When people enjoy something and concentrate hard, time seems to pass… — Why time flies and why it drags · tree and pragmatics description: When people enjoy something and concentrate hard, time seems to pass quickly: "time flies when you're having fun". Who acts: people, time, you. A sentence of the lesson «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Why time flies and why it drags](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/) / 16 # Why time flies and why it drags, sentence 16 When people enjoy something and concentrate hard, time seems to pass quickly: "time flies when you're having fun". **Who acts:** people, time, you · **What happens:** enjoy, concentrate, seem, pass, fly, have · **To what, where:** something, fun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Why time flies and why it drags» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, time, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:16 # text = When people enjoy something and concentrate hard, time seems to pass quickly: "time flies when you're having fun". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 enjoy enjoy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 concentrate concentrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 hard hard ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 21 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 24 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enjoy** | present | people | something | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | | 2 | **concentrate** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | present | time | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | time *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fly** *in a quote* | present | time | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | fun | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags.lesson:16`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why time flies and why it drags, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/15/) - next →: [Why time flies and why it drags, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/110-why-time-flies-and-why-it-drags/)